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Gil Hova 🔜 NHRL 2025 World Champs
@gil.hova.net
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He/him. JC/NYC.

Informal Ferret Games, robot fight facilitator at NHRL, weird/noisy music, ferret fan. Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency.

All my links: https://gil.hova.net
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Gil Hova 🔜 NHRL 2025 World Champs @gil.hova.net · 12d
BREAKING: I'm starting up a new line of games that I'll be putting out on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social. Some will be reprints of older Formal Ferret Games, some of these will be expansions to existing games, and some are going to be brand new.

Of course, I'm calling it Informal Ferret Games.
gil.hova.net
Dream report: every board game of mine that had an electronic component all turned on and made noise at once
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
gil.hova.net
I think I figured out a brain hack to help with my executive dysfunction.

Note: I am privileged enough to have a job that gives me time off when I need it, and weekends and holidays. I also don't have kids, or other things that could pull me back into burnout.

🧵
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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magmacranes.bsky.social
All my music on bandcamp is free/pay what you want through the weekend for black Friday/small business Saturday. Enjoy!

😊🎶🎧

megancarnes.bandcamp.com/music
Megan Carnes
megancarnes.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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thedailytism.com
Cohen said: “The itinerary was looking pretty full, to be fair. I’d have had to hang around the venue until about 11pm, which is usually the time I become a depleted husk of a woman. So this has worked out perfectly.”
Autistic woman left at the altar just glad she’s got the afternoon free now
An autistic woman who has been left at the altar at her wedding is quietly relieved to have the time back, according to witnesses. Talia Cohen, 34, was jilted by her husband-to-be Gavin Monks, 34,…
thedailytism.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.
gwynnefitz.bsky.social Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 23h
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
gil.hova.net
The fact that The Onion, a satirical newspaper, is now 11th-largest in the nation is a testament to both their vision and the awful state that legacy media has put themselves in.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.
Hey there Onion members, This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™. I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you. Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.” In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out. But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important. You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized. We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse. Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post. We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor. Due to your patronage in the last year, we have: Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half. Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving. Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools. Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off. And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool. Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon. So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats. Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Are you? If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it. Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es, Ben Collins CEO | The Onion
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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cardboardedison.com
Working to put together the rest of the copies of Houdini’s Last Act! If you couldn’t make #IndieGamesNightMarket and are interested, we’ll have a VERY small number of copies available soon! cardboardedison.com/houdini
Rows of hand-stamped card sleeves lined up on a table: blue, yellow, and silver.
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
gil.hova.net
Planning out my 2026 con schedule. I will not be able to do Metatopia, because of schedule conflicts. 😭

What is a good convention to test a one-shot tabletop story RPG at?

(I am strongly considering FEPH at Gen Con)

(How is UnPub at testing story RPGs? I already have a few tables booked)
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
gil.hova.net
One thing I've started doing each Thanksgiving is to donate money to local Native American Charities. This is a tough day for them, and it's the least I can do.
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Seen on Reddit:

"42 is just old people 6 7"

And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
gil.hova.net
I'm sorry, I can't hear what you're saying over all these chickens
jeffstormer.gobirds.online Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 3d
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
gil.hova.net
OK, new AllPlay version of The Networks gets the official designer thumbs-up. Jeff Fraser made these tweaks while I was down for the count, and he did a masterful job sanding down the game's rougher edges.
My TV network in my game The Networks, just re-released by AllPlay
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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cardboardtime.bsky.social
I was stoked to see The Networks back for sale again!
Speaking of your games in haul pics...
My haul from PAX Unplugged (Mostly review copies fortunately)
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
gil.hova.net
Extremities is one of the strangest KJ albums (of which they have many), but it has so many high points. Wish I could see this live!
ganserband.bsky.social Ganser @ganserband.bsky.social · 3d
This Friday and Saturday Chicago, join us supporting Martin Atkins (P.i.L, Killing Joke, Ministry, NiN, Pigface), Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God), Justin Pearson (The Locust), Tara Busch (I Speak Machine), Orville Kline, Dirk Flanigan, & Leyla Royale celebrating Killing Joke’s ‘Extremities’ album in full
Drummer Martin Atkins celebrates the 35th anniversary of Killing Joke’s Extremities with an all-star lineup - Chicago Reader
UK postpunk pioneers Killing Joke have 15 studio albums to their name, and whichever one you might consider their “worst” is still light-years beyond anything their scene peers released.
chicagoreader.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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ericdittmore.bsky.social
For anyone who is interested in Adulting but didn't make it to IGNM, fear not! The PNP version is here! While I'd love to print more copies, this will have to do for now. It is pay what you want; I really just want to get this game in as many hands as possible. Let me know what you think!
Adulting by Eric Dittmore
A cozy card game about the mundane struggles of adulthood.
eric-dittmore.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
gil.hova.net
Seeing my game in haul pics never gets old. Enjoy it!
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
gil.hova.net
Kinda weird to think that for my day job, this is very much a literal question. www.instagram.com/p/DRcmNFCjMMF/
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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eizebasa.baby
TEXT FROM MY 21yo NEPHEW: stole Duncan’s apostrophe

ME: What does that mean?

NEPHEW: text to speech sucks it was supposed to say stole Dunkin’s apostrophe

ME: I still don’t know what that means.

NEPHEW:
My nephew holding what appears to be the apostrophe from a Dunkin’ sign.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
gil.hova.net
Working in tabletop RPGs: Star Wars

In board games: Trainspotting

in video games: Apocalypse Now

No, I will not be elaborating
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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themattmcd.bsky.social
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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br3l00m.bsky.social
I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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kellernyc.bsky.social
If you're running a gift exchange this year, I built a tool that might improve everyone's gifts: bettersecretsanta.com
Better Secret Santa
Improve your Secret Santa gift exchanges by making it easier for everyone to select a gift.
bettersecretsanta.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
gil.hova.net
I saw that the excellent sportswriter @rodger.bsky.social recently moved from Substack to Beehiiv, so I became a paid subscriber.

More sportswriters, and writers in general, should move off Substack. If you're in a position to support a writer who's recently moved, please do so!

sports.beehiiv.com
Sports! with Rodger Sherman
Covering the unique and untold stories about sports.
sports.beehiiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM